There have been some minor overhauls lately that have amounted to wholesale change. Though there is still much progress to make, I would like to think I am heading in the right direction. Nonetheless, there are still some fairly serious and substantial problems ahead ( Read more... )

As I had done earlier this month, I decided to look at livejournal entries past, specifically to see where I was around in this time of November in years prior. For the purposes of this experiment, I decided to look at 2005, 2008, and 2010 ( Read more... )

An entry should follow soon, but in case it doesn't, I wanted to leave ya'll with these lyrics that are sort of on my mind:

Don't try to fight it, cause you won't ( Read more... )

I'm always amazed at how readily I contradict myself and paint myself into corners. When I'm not accused (usually right, admittedly) of butchering the English language and being a tactless fool, I'm accused of being bitter, paranoid (actually, no one ever has used that word, but I use it a lot to describe myself), anachronistic and out of touch. So ( Read more... )

Thus far, the afternoon has not been particularly productive, actually. I have started laundry (working on load 2 right now), and I took a brief nap (45 minutes). There is, of course, still much work to be done. Most of it is fairly easy and straightforward, actually. So, I've no major complaints in that regard. The past 2 weeks or so have been ( Read more... )

Anyone who has been following this journal recently (say just this year, for example) will have read much about (or seen listed in the tags, or in the what I'm listening to song) that there has been a huge influx in Sleater-Kinney in all the domains mentioned. They formed in '94, I first started listening to them in about '99 or so and they've been ( Read more... )

I've been absent from lj not for a lack of things to say, but because until today, I couldn't get lj to load. I don't know why that was happening, but it did. In the meanwhile, I did update my tumblr and my hand-written journal. I am afraid of writing more, for fear that it won't post or that it will (as all my entries as of late tend to be) overly ( Read more... )

Last week was pretty good. I read well over 600 pages (maybe even close to or over 800?) and went on several walks. True, I only walked about 10 miles or so (and in past weeks I have walked double that) but that's okay ( Read more... )

Today is my 99th day of sobriety. While I know I can manage to continue to stay sober, I worry about my sobriety a lot. I have never been this sober for this long. Also, I have not been to a meeting since Tuesday ( Read more... )

I just read a friend's entry that reminded me some thoughts that have been on my mind this week. Statistically speaking, I probably won't live very long. I am a non-religious, pet-less, child-less, relationship-less, bipolar, male, alcoholic, formerly obese, with a family history of heart problems, smoking, slothful, without too many close ( Read more... )